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Hiring for Agreeableness
Personality plays a BIG part in how we get along with others. Of course, this impacts not only one’s personal life but professional life as well. Our personality is always with us, influencing what we think, what we feel, and how we behave.
Each person’s personality is comprised of five broad personality traits. A trait is also referred to as an attribute, characteristic, feature, particularity, peculiarity, or quality. Known as the Big Five, these traits were defined in the 1970s by two research teams led by Paul Costa and Robert R. McCrae of the National Institutes of Health and Warren Norman and Lewis Goldberg of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of Oregon. The Big Five are the ingredients that make up each individual’s personality. The acronym spells OCEAN. Continue reading →